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Hi. I know. It’s been way too long. But, the good news is I am feeling a lot better health-wise. Painting and drawing have been slow, ok, virtually non existent. However, journal writing and new poetry writing (you didn’t know I did that did you?) have been daily. This isn’t a poetry blog but man, if it was, I’d have a post a day for weeks and weeks.
I was looking through an old (tea stained as you may notice) Moleskine sketchbook and came across a portrait of Chester (above) and that made me think of the more recent one (below) that I had in a November post that got lost to the etherlands during that blog crash near the in of ‘08. Thought I’d put the two together here and say, HELLO.
P.S. I have been out cycling twice this week. Woo hoo!
P.P.S. Thanks for kind words and encouraging comments on the previous post and by email during my illness and post-op periods.
April 22, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Hi Dear owen
I think i can find on your blog everything i need about art. Congratulations! you have a great blog. i see your good paintings, great information and artlinks. i like see your blog more.
March 31, 2009 at 12:42 pm
I’m happy you are feeling well – I love Chester.
March 31, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Thanks Terry. Chester loves you too, no doubt.
March 30, 2009 at 9:21 pm
O, I’d love to have a recommendation from your son. I haven’t read much Wiesel except for a few quotes. What would be a good place to start?
As for the earlier Chester drawing… no I don’t remember it. I seem to have a head for chairs and trees
Good thing you posted it again!
March 31, 2009 at 9:20 am
Actually, our daughter. I will ask her and get back to you
Chairs and tress, yes.
March 31, 2009 at 3:07 pm
So I asked E and she said to suggest the trilogy with the following titles: Night, Dawn, and Day. These are the usual starting point.
She also she highly recommends whose work addresses similar themes is Chaim Potok noting: The Chosen, The Promise and Davita’s Harp.
I’ll email these to you in case you don’t check back here.
March 30, 2009 at 8:18 pm
Welcome back to the bitts and bytes of the webosphere. Also it’s nice to hear that you are out there wheeling about – does more than the body good!
March 31, 2009 at 10:19 am
Thanks carbonform. It’s good to be back, to life.
March 30, 2009 at 12:18 pm
yeah..i know
i love words, and can’t spell worth beans.
March 30, 2009 at 12:16 pm
since poetry is a picture
painted with words,
and is wonderful art…
i just wanted to send a small,
tiny, itsy bitsy request
for the exception of a time
set aside on your blog
to share poetry.
that’s me…the one in every croud.
and a big “please” for good measure.
March 30, 2009 at 12:39 pm
nAncY,
what a gift. Thank you.
I might dare to share some of my poetry here in the future. Not sure how it will go over but I guess I won’t know unless I try.
March 30, 2009 at 6:53 am
Great to see you back. And thanks posting the pooch portraits…our guy has been boarding while we’ve been on vacation, and we pick him up today. It was weird to come home and for him not to be here. Sleeping dogs rank up there with sleeping children, and may slightly surpass sleeping teens, LOL!
March 30, 2009 at 8:31 am
Janet, thanks for continuing to check in. To protect the not so innocent I refrain from revealing which of our humans it is who even the dog cannot out sleep.
Yeah, it’s hard not seeing doggie (or kitty, I suppose for the cat lover) when one comes home home. It always felt a little empty, ok, a lot empty, the few times we did the boarding thing.
Recently we’ve had a good friend check in on house and doggie a few times each day when we are somewhere that we cannot take the dog, which isn’t often quite honestly. Friend loves doing it and refuses to accept anything for that kindness.
March 30, 2009 at 3:39 am
I have been trying to be patient waiting for a post of yours to show up in bloglines…..LOL!
So glad you are feeling much better. Thanks be to God for that!
(((big sisterly type hugs)))
March 30, 2009 at 8:19 am
Bless you ukok. Hugs welcomed and received and, in return.
March 29, 2009 at 8:26 pm
Soooo happy to hear that you’re feeling better and back on your bike! Something to celebrate for sure!!!
March 29, 2009 at 8:40 pm
Hey kiddo. You’re just the best for checking in. You’ve been around long enough (I mean in relation to my blog history) to perhaps remember that earlier Chester drawing?
And yes, those are just the prettiest eggs in your most recent post.